organicconsumers.org Archives - 19 March 2018, Monday

In 1950, while looking for new pharmaceuticals, the Swiss chemist Henri Martin synthesized the chemical we call glyphosate. … But it took Monsanto and John Franz, a young Monsanto chemist, to unlock the weed-killing magic within glyphosate and bring it to market as the highly profitab...

It’s been an eventful week in federal court in San Francisco as expert witnesses face off on the science surrounding glyphosate , the key active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. The outcome of the hearing , determined by U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria, will establish whether fa...

Get ready for a huge week in federal court in San Francisco where expert witnesses will face off on the science surrounding glyphosate , the world’s most widely used pesticide. The outcome of the hearing, determined by U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria, will establish whether farmers and thei...

OCA’s position on vaccine safety: Some vaccines may be safe, some may not be safe, at least not for some people. As with any medicine, consumers have the right to know exactly what is in every vaccine, and what the latest, and best research says about the potential risk for each and e...

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If you live in the U.S., you’re far more likely to get hit with salmonella or some other foodborne illness, than if you live in the U.K. You can thank the factory farm industry for that. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) and the Guardian found “shocking...

Avoiding a chemical suspected to disrupt people’s hormones may be easier said than done, new research published in BMJ Open suggests. Despite following guidelines meant to reduce the amount of bisphenol A (BPA) in a person’s diet, about 90 percent of the people in the study still had ...

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The new German government will aim to end the use of glyphosate herbicides “as fast as possible”, according to the draft deal to establish a new German coalition government published on Wednesday on the homepage of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party. The draft states; “We will with ...

What happens when Monsanto doesn’t like what the World Health Organization (WHO) has to say about its flagship product, Roundup weedkiller? The chemical company convinces U.S. lawmakers to hold a “smoke and mirrors” Congressional hearing, under the guise of “defending scientific integ...

What happens when Monsanto doesn’t like what the World Health Organization (WHO) has to say about its flagship product, Roundup weedkiller? The chemical company convinces U.S. lawmakers to hold a “smoke and mirrors” Congressional hearing, under the guise of “defending scientific integ...

Networks in nature show how, for the networks that we engineer and those that tie us to each other, the pattern of links at the local scale sets the options for stability and transformation. Almost everything that happens in life is the result of a network. Making, or breaking, local ...

In secret internal Monsanto documents released on Tuesday by legal firms in the U.S. it was revealed how Monsanto led the attack on the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), after the Agency announced that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide...

As sales of gas, cigarettes and soda plummet, stores to offer “better-for-you” products. Like thousands of U.S. convenience stores, many 7-Eleven stores cram rows of snacks between a wall of chilled sodas and a bank of churning Slurpee machines. But starting this month, 7-Eleven will ...

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Monsanto was the master of fake news long before fake news was a thing. For decades, the St. Louis-based biotech company has enlisted the services of expensive (and slick) PR firms to feed the public and the media lies about everything from how the company improves farmers’ lives, to ...

“The campaign for organic food is a deceitful, expensive scam,” according to a Jan. 19 Newsweek article authored by Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution. If that name sounds familiar – Henry I. Miller – it may be because the New York Times recently revealed a scandal involvin...

Monsanto has become a global powerhouse capable of twisting entire governments according to its will. As a result, the company has saturated the global environment with its toxic chemicals, largely through questionable if not outright immoral and illegal means. Carey Gillam, an invest...

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Farmers now apply nearly 5 billion pounds of glyphosate , the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup® weedkiller on farm crops each year, worldwide. Approximately 300 million pounds are applied on U.S. farmland. How does Monsanto get away with it? Given the mounting evidence of the d...

We have compiled this list of 11 great plants to help you sleep better, based on their calming and cleansing effects. There is nothing more annoying than tossing and turning all night, before being awoken by the sound of your alarm clock – just minutes after you finally managed to doz...

If nutritional quality and animal welfare issues factor into your egg-buying decisions, get ready for more bad news out of the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA plans to ditch rules , finalized under the Obama Administration, that would have requir...

If nutritional quality and animal welfare issues factor into your egg-buying decisions, get ready for more bad news out of the Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA plans to ditch rules , finalized under the Obama administration, that would have requir...

A shocking new study published in Toxicology Reports has shown that the current regulatory assessments of the world’s most used herbicides are wrong, with ingredients such as arsenic being regularly found in Glyphosate based herbicides and other pesticides at toxic levels. Glyphosate’...

The explosive compound that helped make America a superpower is now a domestic threat. ProPublica months ago began investigating the scope of the environmental problems caused by the US military on domestic soil. What they found was arresting. The Pentagon has catalogued more than 40,...

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In March 2015, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as “Probably Carcinogenic to Humans” based on numerous scientific studies linking glyphosate to a range of cancers, including non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, renal can...

Planet Earth will survive in one form or another, no matter what damage we humans inflict on it. The question is, will we survive with it? Or will we destroy Earth’s ability to sustain life, all life, as we know it? We had that conversation sitting around a table in San Miguel de Alle...

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All Monsanto wanted for Christmas was another gift from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sure enough, the EPA (or as we prefer to call it, the Monsanto Protection Agency) handed out that early Christmas gift this week. Ignoring mountains of research to the contrary, the...

Your local natural health food store could never get away with stocking its shelves with Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. Toxins that cause cancer and birth defects don’t belong in “health” food stores. So how do some of these stores get away with stocking Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, when ...

In this recent article, “Corporate-Spun Science Should Not Be Guiding Policy,” Gillam lays out all ways corporate-spun science is spinning out of control—and threatening public health. (News update: This week the EU voted to allow the use of Roundup for another five years—not the 15 y...

Internal Monsanto documents reveal a startling campaign to suppress science. Policymakers would be wise to adopt a more precautionary view. As an invited expert to a European Parliament hearing last month, I joined scientists, regulators and others in what has become a global debate o...

SASKATOON — Newly published research says two of Canada’s most commonly used pesticides cause migrating songbirds to lose weight and their sense of direction. “This is very good evidence that even a little dose — incidental, you might call it — in their feeding could be enough to have...